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Originally Posted by Skip_intro
I have another gripe with books I know are a series, brought into mind recently whilst reading The Strain. It's a well written book, but at the end, I just couldn't bring myself to read Book 2 as I knew there was a Book 3. This rendered Book 2 redundant, as I knew nothing would be resolved and no matter what, the story would continue beyond the end of it.
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If the story begins in Book 1, continues in Book 2, and ends in Book 3, how can the middle be redundant?
To me, what you just posted makes as much sense as skipping chapters 20-40 in a novel that has 50 chapters. Why bother reading the middles ones, since the story continues in chapter 41 and nothing is resolved in 40? That makes no sense. If the author envisioned the story as lasting through three volumes, then there shouldn't be anything redundant in there. Only a poorly written series has empty filler volumes.